An author's memoir will be featured at the Burnaby Writers' Society's next Spoken Ink night.
Bertha Washington Walker will be on hand for the reading evening on Tuesday, April 15 to present from her new memoir Love at First Sight: A 1950s Interracial Story.
A press release notes that Bertha knew at age 10 that she wanted to be a writer, but love and life took her in different directions. She began her working days in 1950 as a clerk-typist, took accounting courses at UBC and then worked as a financial controller at a micrographics company for 15 years.
She started her own publishing business - which is now owned and operated by her son - and raised six children.
She's now retired and living in New Westminster.
You can hear Bertha read from her work at 8 p.m. There will also be an open mike - sign-up for that starts at 7:30 p.m.
The Spoken Ink event is happening at La Fontana Caffe, 101-3701 Hastings St. in North Burnaby.
The reading series runs regularly on the third Tuesday of each month. For more, check out www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com or contact [email protected].
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Burnaby residents have been onstage with the UBC Symphony Orchestra this week as it tours Western Canada.
The orchestra has performed in Salmon Arm, followed by three Alberta dates - in Lethbridge, Edmonton and Okotoks - before coming back home to British Columbia play in Kamloops and Chilliwack.
It caps off the tour with a performance in Surrey tomorrow (Thursday, April 10), when the ensemble takes to the stage at the Chandos Pattison Auditorium at Pacific Academy for a 7 p.m. show.
The orchestra includes four Burnaby residents: violinist Monica Chen; principal violist Angela Chen, oboist Diana Chan and percussionist Julia Chien.
Performing under the baton of Jonathan Girard, the orchestra will play repertoire that includes Strauss' Don Juan, Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin Op. 35 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
The Tchaikovsky concerto will feature David Gillham, an assistant professor of violin at UBC, as the violin soloist.
The Chandos Pattison Auditorium is at 10238 168th St. in Surrey.
Tickets to the UBC Symphony Orchestra concert are free and available at the door.
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A New Westminster poet is being featured in a reading at the Burnaby Public Library's McGill branch.
Renee Saklikar will be on hand for the reading on Tuesday, April 22 from 7 to 8:45 p.m. Saklikar will read from her work children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections. Saklikar was 23 years old when her aunt and uncle were among the 329 passengers who died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182.
Joining Saklikar will be Capilano University faculty members Melanie Fahlman and Ed Lavalle.
No registration is needed, but show up early as space is limited. The McGill library is at 4595 Albert St. in North Burnaby.
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